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Part 1 of this article on Renting Your Spanish Property covered understanding your costs and what fixtures and fittings to include…

Key holding and property management

  • The first consideration should be finding a property management company, especially during the early phases to supervise furniture deliveries and access for tradesmen. Some of the most successful people that rent do their own marketing, through friends and family and the volume property rental sites and only use a local service provider for cleaning, maintenance, meet and greet and key holding. Meet and greet is potentially the area where most people fail as a friendly and informative meet, with good information provided, can start a happy holiday experience and try to provide a basic pack containing tea coffee milk water etc.

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Our contributors are great people take a look at what they can do for you:

Martine Cherry – from www.dreamspain.net – Martine can help you buy or sell a home in Murcia in Spain

Roy Howitt – from www.thesnaggingforum.com – Roy can help you with snagging for your new home – he has plenty of useful reports over at his site

Yolanda Solo – from www.spainsurvivalmanual.com and the author of Spain: The Expat Survival Guide

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2 years ago InspectaHomeSpain published our first survey report, based on 350 new property inspections www.thesnaggingforum.com and with the incredible changes that the Spanish property market has gone through an update was overdue.

In the latest survey we look at inspection results for 700 properties, checked over the period from April 2007 – December 2008, in the Costa Blanca, Costa Calida, Costa Almeria and Costa del Sol areas.

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For the last 3 years InspectaHomeSpain have been inspecting new build Spanish properties and with experience of checking more than 3000 properties, we are still amazed how often buyers really don’t understand the Spanish buying process. We are never sure if it’s the sunshine, idyllic surroundings, the relaxed lifestyle, or just the cheap booze, that results in the buyers leaving their brain on the plane and not really knowing what they have bought or the idiosyncrasies of Spanish system.

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